Throughout the Nineties, the press made much of the rivalry between Blur (as middle-class art school graduates) and the blue-collar Manchester band Oasis. Tensions reached a head when Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher told a reporter that he wished Albarn and James would "catch AIDS and die". Both bands' labels used the feud as a marketing tool: in 1995, Food Records shifted the release date of Blur's single Country House to put it in direct competition with Oasis's Roll With It. Blur won, taking the number one spot with 270,000 sales compared to Oasis’s 220,000. (Pictured: Albarn and Liam Gallagher in 1995)